Concluding with lectures on Black English, "language death", and artificial languages, Professor McWhorter ends with his lecture series with "Finale-Master Class".
Then addressing the question of wether culture drives language change, Professor McWhorter ably addresses how language "starts over" using Creole as an illustration. Professor McWhorter then goes on to cover dialects, language mixture, offers a new perspective on the developmental history of English. This fully developed seminar begins with an exploration and explanation of what constitutes language, how languages changes and evolves, the classification of language into "families", "The Case Against the World's First Language" and "The Case For the World's First Language". In The Story Of Human Language, Professor McWhorter presents 36 thirty minute lectures captures in a six DVD format series organized into 3 plastic storage cases of two discs each. Retrieved from Ĥ151 Lafayette Center Drive, Suite 100, Chantilly, VA 20151-1232ġ565859480 $374.95 1-80 Linguistics expert John McWhorter is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute whose academic speciality is language change and language contact.
MLA style: "The Story of Human Language." The Free Library.
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